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The Mellette-Todd County Sunday School Convention in Wood Tomorrow and Sunday
VOLUME XJI.
WHEELER BRIDGE TO BE
COMPLETED NEXT YEAR
The suspense on the various bridge
construction sites ol the state bridges
to be built across the Missouri river
was broken last week at the Custer
Battlefield lliwuv convention hold at
Sioux Falls lust week. For weeks
everybody has been anxiously await
ing information on the subject—for
weeks the papers have been daily
scanned for some authentic inlorma
tion relative thereto. But it seems
that State Bridge Engineer Kirkham
considered tin* time ol this convention
the most opportune time to impart
this information, having attended this
meeting expresslv for this purpose.
The Missouri river bridge at
Chamberlain will cost inthe neighbor
hood of $350,00(1. or about 15 per cent
more than the original estimates and
the structure will be completed early
in 1925, according to a statement
made by State Bridge engineer Kirk
ham. The other bridges, Mr. Kirk
ham said, will cost as tollows: Pierre,
$500,000; Forest City, $400,000;
Wheeler, $310,000; Mobridge, $280,-
000. Tliev will be completed as fol
lows: Wheeler, November 1, 1924;
Mobridge, December 1, 1924; Cham
berlain early in 1925. Mr. Kirkham
explained that the cost ol the bridge
at Chamberlain would be higher be
cause it had been found that the river
bottom was gravel in some places in
stead of rock as was at tirst thought
arid this would necessitate the sink
ing of piles to the lower stratum of
rook for safety.
Discussing his recent difficulties
with the engineers ot the bureau of
public roads, Mr. Kirkham said:
“The bureau, which supervises fed
eral aid protects. wanted us to have
300-foot spans.” Mr. Kirkham con
tinued. “I showed them, however,
that tliev had permitted 200-foot
spans in other places and convinced
them that 300 feet was excessive, with
a conseuuent added burden on the tax
payers. So they finally compromised
and the spans will b«» made 265 feet
—quite ample for the passage of boats
in. case the* river is ever used toi
traffic.”
“And, after thc§e engineers have
painted a picture of grain elvators
stationed all along the river, with
barges busily plying back and forth
between St. Louis and South Dakota
cities, vou have to admit that they
have some talking points.
Don’t worry about °afet3’ ot
these biidges. They have been si
designed that e\erv point on which
there will be stress, will be able to
withstand four times the load which
we ever expect will be brought to bear
against it. ”
A 15-ton tractor is the heaviest load
that is found on the highways of
South Dakota todav. the speaker told
the Hiwav delegates, and explained
that each span of the bridges could
hold 18 of these 15-ton tractors with-
out feeling the strain. Eighteen 20-
ten tractors could be safely carried
by overstressing 15 per cent and this
could not be the least dangerous, ac-
cording to Mr. Kirkham, for it must
be remembered that provision has
been made for a factor of safety ot
four, or a load four times that ex
pected.
“When a bridge is constructed, we
must figure not only on live load,
or that from wagons and other traf
fic and the dead load, of that from
the floor and so forth, but we must
take into account the strain from ice
and wind,’’.Mr. Kirkham went on
sav.
“The strain caused bv wind and ice
has been studied for many years and
we now are able to figure on these
two points as accurately as on other
stresses. The piers will be built so
strong that the crashing of ice against
them and the blowing of the wind
against the superstructure will be only
one-fourth that which can be easily
withstood. ''
Mr. Kirkham remarked that he had
been asked whether there needed to
be a guard at these bridges.
“Why should there be?” he asked.
“There will be no movable spans, as
the bridges will be high enough and
wide enough to permit the passage
of traffic. There will be no upkeep
except painting about even’ 10 years
and the applying of additional tania
even' few years. hTe bridges will
be heavy enough so that they probably
won’t he stolen by anyone and we
don’t figure on anyone blowing them
up. “ —Chamberlain Register.
Renwick Cross of Tripp county wa9
a Wood visitor, Wednesday.
O.E.S. INITIATES CLASS OF FOUR
The local chapter ot the Order ot
the Eastern Star at its regular meet
ing lield at Masonic Hall on Wednes
day evening of this week initiated a
class of lour into the mysteries of
that order. 'The following sisters and
brothers of White River Chupter were
here on that evening to assist the
local Chapter in the conferring ol' the
degrees: Alva M. Kell, Elda C. Ter
pin, Alice Strain, Angeline Lyons,
Lena Elly, Florence Brodboll, Maude
Terpin, Estelle J. Manson, Caroline
Kent, Mrs. C. P. Anders, C. E. Kell,
M. I. Strain, J. E. Kent and Don E.
Terpin. Maude Leigh of Winner
Chapter was also among the visitors
on that evening. After the conferring
of the degrees refreshments consist
ing of sandwiches, cake and coffee
were served.
More Good Corn
Chas. Eaton, who lives about six
miles northeast of Wood, brought us
some more samples of big coni of the
yelow dent variety and he says he
has about eighty-five acres of corn
just like it. He husked a few rows
of the corn last week and he estimates
that the corn will yield about 45
bushels per acre. It is fully matured
and the ears that are on exhibit in
our office weigh about one and one
fourth pounds each, measure between
ten and eleven inches in length and
have something like 1000 kernels to
the ear. It is corn that will compare
favorably with any corn raised in
lowa or Nebraska. The corn crop in
Mellette county this year is a bmnnei
one and the yield and the quality arc
unsurpassed. If Vou have any real
big ears of coni t|Be Pioneer would
appreciate a sample ear to put on ex
hibition in our office, 90 that we m,av
show the visitors who drop into our
office from time to time that come
from the big com producing sections
that this is just as good a corn pro
ducing country as they can find any
where.
CONVENTION NOTICE
As next Sunday is Convention Sun
day no regular services will be held at
Wood or Cody, but everyone is cor
dially invited to attend the various
jneetings of the convention. Several
speakers from outside will be present
and a very profitable time will be
assure to all who come. Wood and
Cody community will serve mashed
]>otatoes, gTavv. baked beans sliced
tomatoes and coffee Sunday noon and
evening. Please bring baskets well
filled with sandwiches, pickles, cake
and anything else you wish to bring
to be served with the meals. Satur
day evening program will he held at
the school house. The Sunday pro
grams will lil held at the American
Legion hall, with the exception of
the Children’s Hour, which will be
held at the school house at 10:30 a. m.
Meals will be served at the school
hon^e.
[ Worry never removes trouble.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF /VIELLETTE COUNTV
WOOD, MELLETTE COUNTY, SOU TH DAKOTA, OCTOBER 5, 1923
WANTED-A NEW FALL SUIT
TEXAS DUROC JERSEYS
BREAK ALL RECORDS
With an official weight of 38981/>
pounds for a litter of twelve Duroc-
Jersev pigv>, Texas new holds the
world’s record for tonnage of pork
produced by one sow and for aver
age weight per pig in six months time.
The litter was weighed September 1,
when ISO days old, under the super
vision ot A. L. Ward, swine special
ist of Texas A. eSc M. college and offi
cials of the McLennan county farm
bureau. The pigs averaged 324.9
pounds per head and made a daily
gain of 1.8 pounds for the whole
feeding period. The last twenty days
the daily gain % wus 3\' 2 pounds for
each pig.
This champion litter was bred and
raised bv Vic Hill of Chialk Bluff,
McLennan county, Texas. The dam
of the litter is Seotts Lucy, 1396278,
a registered Duroe-Jersey sow that
was sired by the grand champion boar
of the 1919 Texas state fair. There
were fourteen pigs in the litter which
was farrowed March 5. Twelve pigs
were raised. The sow was three
weeks less than three years old when
the contest ended.
The total value of feed including
pasture necessary to produce the lit
ter was $229.84, making the cost of
each hundred pounds $5.89. The pigs
will be sold for breeding stock but
as they are worth 9V*> cents a pound
on the market the dnv weighed, they
made a net profit of $140.51. The lit
ter consumed 8996 pounds of skim
iniik. 5240 pounds of corn feed meal,
2100 pounds of pig chow and 200
pounds of corn. They had the run of
an eighteen-acre Bermuda grass pas
ture with shade and water.
In order to be correct and certain
ou everv point the litter was ear
marked when seven day sold by county
agent E. H. Eudaly in the presence
of the president of the local county
Livestock association. The scales used
to weigh the litter were tested and
reeled by the Waco city inspector of
weights and measures. Mr. Eudaly
supervised the care and feeding of the
litter during the entire test. Mr. Hill
received $350.00 in cash prizes which
were offered bv the National Duroc-
Record association of Peoria, Illinois,
and Waco business houses.
Next Monday afternoon the hoy
scouts arc going to hike down to our
tourist park and camp ground, that
has been sadly neglected this past
summer, and are going to begin the
task of cleaning up the park. Scout
master Kussman has arranged for a
weiner roast and camp fire in the
park in the evening. This is certain
ly a very laudable undertaking by the
scouts, and we understand that they
are going to nytke if their especial
business to look after this park and
camp ground another season, and
hope to make some necessary improve
ments this year, and next season it
will be made into an attractive and
inviting camp ground for the tourist
To Clean Up Our Park
home people. If all plans mature the
scouts may eventually build a scout
cabin on the park site. Now, let’s
all help the boys in their very laud
able undertaking.
MELLETTE COUNTY IN OCTOBER
Here it is the third day of October,
1923, when this is being written and
as yet we have had no killing fflost in
t His section of Mellette county.
Strange as it may seem to some we
can go into our back yard and pick
roses in full bloom, hollyhocks, petun
ias and other flowers—we can go to
our garden and pick a nice mess of
green peas, others can pick nice ripe
strawberries, and still others can go
into their gardens and pick nice green
corn for dinner, and there are any
number of other vegetables that can
be gathered right in tlit* gardens of
Mellette county todav. The days are
warm and the nights are cool, water
melons and cantaloupe are abundant
and of prime quality. The small grain
crop was a bumper and it has prac
tically all been threshed and stored
in the granary, the com crop is a big
one and it is all matured and good,
sound corn beyond the danger of any
injury by frost, the hav crop was a
bounteous one, and with the one ex
ception of the outbreak of anthrax
among the cattle and the cholera
among the hogs of the county, the
Mellette county, farmer certainly had
nothing to complain of this year.
Even California hasn’t anything on
u« for real ideal weather, and none
of the other states as far as crops
are concerned.
Suggestions for Improving
The Quality of Eggs
South Dakota egg producers have
been sustaining quite a loss from
poor quality or badly handled eggs.
The first consideration of every pro
gressive poultryman in the state
should be to locate an outlet where
payment will be made for his product
in proportion to the quality.
I Here are suggestions which, if fol
lowed out. will result in the produc-
tion of a higher quality of eggs:
1. Do not keep mongrel hens.
2. Do not allow nests to become
filthy. •
X Separate the laying hens from
the setting hens.
4. Gather the eggs at least every
day, better a day in very hot
weather.
5. Keep eggs in a dry, cool, well
ventilated place.
f» v Xever wash eggs, as it spoils
their keeping qualities.
7. Market eggs tw'icc a w’eck in
h< t weather, if possible.
S. Do not sell eggs case count,
hut insist that your eggs be candled
and paid for according to quality.
9. Do not market small, inferior or
dirty egg*.
10. Separate the male birds from
the flock as soon as the hatching sea
son is over. (In warm weather a
fertile egg will spoil in less than half
the time it will take for an infertile.
BOY SCOUT NOTICE
Next Monday afternoon the boy
semits are requested to gather at the
sehoolhouse in Wood at 4:00 o’clock
from which place they will hike to
the park ground southeast of town,
where thev intend to do some cleaning
up. It is the desire of the scout offi
cials to clean up tlie park alid put
iq a dam and beautify the grounds
as much as possible. Nature lias
done her part in this particular spot
nnd bv a little work and planning a
very beautiful spot can be made of
the grounds—-one that the community
may la* proud of and which will be a
pleasure to tin* tourists who travel
through our locality.
Those boys who have not ns yet
qualified for tenderfoot rank are re
quested to come prepared to take their
test around tin* camp fire next Mon
da\ evening. This is not a hard test
and even boy can in a very short time
master the requirements if he will put
forth the same effort in this work
that he does in his regular school
work.
The scoutmaster will furnish weinies
for the evening lunch and all boys
are requested to bring buttered bread
or any other things that hey wish
for the evening meal. Let us all boost
this outing and see if we can have
twenty bovs out.
P. J. Kussman, Scoutmaster.
THE FARMER’S WIFE
Weekly Service Hints Furnished by
State College Specialists
Brookings
Soups for Cool Days—Potato Soup:
Parc 8 medium sized potatoes and
cover with boiling water; cook 30 min
utes with V 2 pint chopped celery and
1 T. minced onion. Take 1 qt. milk,
heating all but half a cupful in double
boiler; mi* 1 T. flour with the half
cup of milk and*tuci iO heated milk.
When vegetables have cooked 30 min
utes drain off water into another
kettle. Mash and beat vegetables
until fine and light, add the water,
rub nii>tr.vc through sieve and put
bnek on five. Add salt and pepper to
paste, beet with egg beater for three
minutes, add hot milk with thickening,
add butter, 1 t. parsley and serve at
once.
Onion Chowder—3 quarts boiling
water, 1 pt minced onion, 1 quart
diced potatoes, 3 t. salt, V:: t. jjepper
3 T. butter, 1 T. fine herbs Cook
onion and butter together for half an
hour, slowly so onion will not brown.
Add boiling water, potatoes, salt, pep
per and cook another hour; then put
in herbs and serve.
Green Pea Soup—Cook one quart
sheikd peas with 3 pts. boiling water
until peas are tender. Pour off watei
saving it for later use; mash peas tine
then add water they were boiled in
and rub through sieve. Return to
kettle, add 2 T. butter and l T. tlour
creamed together, salt and pepper to
taste; gradually stir in I qt. uplk,
which must be boiling hot. Beat well
and cook ten miqutes, stirring fre
quently.
Mixed Vgetable Soup— 3 qts. water,
lqt. shredded cabbage, 1 pt. sliced
potato, y>> pt. minced carrot Vipl* each
minced turnip and onion. 1 leek, 2
tomatoes, 2 T. each of m,’need celery
and green peppyr, 2 T. butter, 3 t. salt,
i/ 2 t. pepper. Add all vegetables ex
cept potatoes and tomatoes to the boil
ing water and boil hard minutes,
then cook gently for 1 hour. Add
other ingredients and cook 1 hour
longer. During entire cooking have
cover partially off stewpan. This
sou)) may be varied by the use ot
different kinds of vegetables in same
proportions.
Threshing Alfalfa Seed
Farmers have been threshing alfal
fa seed in this immediate vicinity
the past week. C. A. Brown, on the
Danker ranch threshed oat about 55
bushels of prime seed, and Kenneth
Mellott got about 25 bushels. The
seed is of very fine quality th is sea-
son, hut the yield per acre is not
quite as large as it has beert other
vears, being on an average ab ant ono
and one-half busheds per acre, which
will give th? grower a money TCturo
per acre for seed alone th.it would
buy an additional acre of just ai good
alfalfa land, or in other won Is the
seed crop even this year would utore
than pay for the original trsrst of. the
land upon which the alfalfa is gl ow
ing. The alfalfa seed threshing son
son will not be completed, for ft >ixie
time, and there will be sevwr il bund
red bushel* nf this
R. I. I. A. HOLDS MEETING
Tlie Rosebud Interseholasti© associ
ation held a meeting at Witten last
Saturday afternoon, which was at*
tended by the principals of the various
schools who hold membership in the
association. Among those in attend
ance were R. A. Watson, principal
of the Ideal school; Mrs. F. . Young
((iiist, principal of the Carter school;
E. H. Hamilton, principal of the
Witten school; G. E. Hoover, princi
pal of the Wood school, and .1. H.
Cratt, principal of tike White River
school.
At this meeting a new set of officers
were elected for this year, as follows:
President, R. A. Watson, of Ideal:
Vice President, E. H. Hamilton, of
Witten; Secretary and Treasurer,
Rev. Waltz, of Ideal. The following
members of the various school boards
were also elected members of the ex
ecutive committee: Thos. Green ot
White River, Ed Johnson of Ideal,
C. A. McDonald of Carter, M. D.
Payne of Wood and 11. E. Hiatt of
Witten.
The annual track meet of the as
sociation will be held at Ideal some
time next spring, definite date to be
announced later. The tollowing
events are scheduled for the annual
meet :
Hoys, Class A—loo-yard dash, 220-
yard dash, 440-yard dash, ruining
broad jump, running high jump, pole
vault, shot put, discus throw. 880-
yard dash.
(’lass B, Bovs —50-yard da 4 , 100-
ynrd dash, 220-yard dash, 110-yard
dash, running broad jump, running
high jump, poll* vault, sliot pul discus
throw, 880 yard relay race composed
of 'teams made up of Class A and
Class B boys from each sc’u 01.
Class A and B, Girls—so-yard dash,
100-yard dash, 150-yard dash, stand
ing broad jump, inning broad jump,
running high jump, relay race ol 440
yards. One team from each school.
Class A will be compose! of boys
and girls between ages of ll* and 20,
and Class B will be composed of boys
and girls 15 years of age and under.
It is probable that a debate between
the various sclvools, and also p. de
clamatory contest will be arranged lor
between the schools to be held during
the winter and enrlv spring, definite
announcements ol these events to be
made later.
White River has the largest high
school attendance of any ot the
schools in the association, 41 b* ing
enrolled there, Witten comes second
with an enrollment of 31, Ideal third
with 30 and Wood fourth with an
enrollment of 19 in the high school.
We lulled to get the enrollment at
Carter.
RURAL CARRIER EXAMINATION
The United States Civil Service
I Commission lias announced an examin
ation to be held at Rosebud, South
Dakota, on October 27, 1923, to fill
the position of rural carrier at White
River, and vaencies that may later
occur on rural routes from that post
office. The salary of a rural errier on
.u standard daily wagon route of 24
'miles is SIBOO per annum, with an ad
'ditional S3O per annum, for each mile
lor major fraction thereof in excess
,of 24 miles. The salary on motor
routes ranges from $2450 to $2600 per
annum, according to length. Separate
i examinations for motor routes and
' wagon routes are no longer held. Ap
pointments to both positions will be
I made from the same register. The
examination will he open only to citi
' zens who are actually domiciled in the
territory of the )»ost office where the
I vacancy exists and who meet the other
| requirements set forth in honn 19/7.
\ Botli men and women, if qualified,
jm.ny enter this examination, but ap
, pointing officers have the legal right
I to spec if v the sex desired in request
ing certification of eligihles. Women
will not he considered for rural car
rier appointment unless they hre the
widows of U. S. soldiers, sailors, or
marines, or the wives of U. S. soldiers,
sailors, or marines who are physically
disqualified for examination byb rea
?cn of injuries received in the line
of military dutv. Form 1977 and ap
plication blanks rrvev be obtained
from the offices mentioned above or
from the United St a tei Civil Service
Commission at Washington, D. C.
Applications should be forwarded to
the Commission at Washington, D. C.,
at the earlieft practicable date.
, We are informed that there will
be an Indian land sale held at the
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